Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My favourite of them is the Power Toolbox , a way of taking program launching and switching out of the Program Manager altogether and putting your own buttons on the desktop . |
| 2 | Our goal is solely to establish whether , in a practical ensemble torn apart by antagonism ( whether there are multiple conflicts or whether they are reduced to one ) the breaks themselves are totalizing and carried along by the totalizing movement of the ensemble . |
| 3 | Corbett bathed in the guest-house 's one and only tub before dressing and going down to the buttery for ale and a bowl of bread and fish boiled in milk . |
| 4 | Young people mostly ; some were singing and prancing along in the middle of the roadway . |
| 5 | When the attack ceased they managed to cannibalize parts to get one truck going and set off for the rendezvous with Fraser , only to find nobody there . |
| 6 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 7 | It is to that ‘ twilight zone ’ that we should direct our attentions , waiting and watching on as the edges waiver , become indistinct , and blend . |
| 8 | Waiting and watching down by the shops — |
| 9 | Once built , the nests are lined with tightly packed leaves which act as insulation and the hedgehogs are then ready to sleep the winter away , occasionally waking and wandering about on the off chance of finding a meal . |
| 10 | He dismissed her by turning and wading back round the corner of the wall . |
| 11 | He nodded at her now , and again said , ‘ By ! ’ before turning and running on to the stage . |
| 12 | 6 At first , Birdie 's shy , but then she jumps onto the perch I 'm holding and sidehops over to the treat dish . |
| 13 | Blonde Michelle says : ‘ My boyfriend Fisher Stevens will have to drag me kicking and screaming out of the house , but once I get on holiday I 'm sure I 'll enjoy it . |
| 14 | He 's a restless sleeper , kicking and thrashing about throughout the night . |
| 15 | I covered a good deal of ground rapidly but not running and caught up with the shapely backview of a dark-haired girl . |
| 16 | She was always crying and storming out of the classroom . |
| 17 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 18 | Billy and Mary were fooling and rolling about in the sunbeams on the edge of the clearing . |
| 19 | They wheel about the sky , fading and crystallizing out of the air to the horror of their victims , striking fear into their hearts with their piercing cries . |
| 20 | Sometimes I stopped reading and looked out of the window . |
| 21 | ‘ We had been drinking and went up to the bedroom . |
| 22 | Whores sat on balconies , drinking and staring down into the street . |
| 23 | When they were out of sight Allen came out of hiding and ran back down the track to the tree where they had been surprised . |
| 24 | Rex took a deep breath , sprang out from hiding and drew down upon the boy in the business suit . |
| 25 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 26 | I turned without stopping and crawled back to the deep end , looking back as I breathed to make sure she was following . |
| 27 | The Gulf War , like a knife , cut the string , and the beads are dropping and bouncing around on the ground . |
| 28 | If you include a Boss and Big Boss in your front rank this will reduce the number of vulnerable Goblins fighting and cut down on the number of casualties you suffer . |
| 29 | The Stormtex outer gives the jacket a fair amount of shower and wind protection ; excellent for hillwalking and hanging about at the bottom of climbs . |
| 30 | This would normally result in overshooting and flying out of the field altogether . |